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‘School Without Walls’ places the arts at the heart of the curriculum, transforming models of learning outside a traditional classroom context. Educators, artists and cultural organizations work together to co-design learning alongside children, with adults observing, listening, documenting and being responsive to children’s ideas. Over the course of one week, young people from St Aldhelm’s Church School transferred their learning from the school classroom to the gallery’s ‘Education Lab: Open Art School.’ The students, aged between 5 and 6 years, were able to co-design creative, inquiry-based learning alongside artists and academics from Bath Spa University, to realise an open, accessible and imaginative creative environment, taking inspiration from the exhibition ‘Phyllida Barlow. unscripted’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

This fall, Hauser & Wirth celebrates The Big Draw Festival 2024 theme ‘Drawing in Motion’ across our global locations. The gallery will welcome diverse audiences of all ages to celebrate the dynamic and ever-changing nature of drawing, by exploring how the act of drawing can capture the essence of movement, energy and life.

Since launching the partnership in 2021, with a series of workshops, screenings, talks and book donations, we are continuing to work with Menorca’s local libraries to expand their art book collection.

On the occasion of ‘Gary Simmons. Thin Ice,’ on view at our Wooster Street location in New York, and as part of the gallery’s ongoing learning initiatives, Gary Simmons has collaborated with young people from Artistic Noise, an organization committed to enriching the lives of system-impacted youth through art making.

In receiving the award—the highest given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government—Bradford shared: ‘It is an unbelievable honor to be included among the recipients of the National Medal of Arts. I've always believed that my practice has had one foot in the studio and one foot in the world—acknowledgement by this community that my work has resonated is truly humbling.’

Artist William Kentridge’s extraordinary, expansive ‘Self-Portrait As A Coffee-Pot’ is now available to watch worldwide exclusively on the global film distributor and streaming service MUBI, following special previews at Toronto International Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival and its presentation at the Arsenale Institute for the Politics of Representation, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, during the Venice Biennale of Art 2024.

‘Barbara Chase-Riboud. Everytime A Knot is Undone, A God is Released’ is the first multi-museum exhibition of a single artist to be presented in Paris during their lifetime. On view across eight major Parisian institutions—Musée d’Orsay, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée du Louvre, Philharmonie de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet and Palais de Tokyo—this presentation is a wide-ranging celebration of the work of the artist, spanning sculpture, drawing and poems created from 1958 to the present day.

We are honored to announce the global representation of acclaimed American artist Jeffrey Gibson, in collaboration with Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Over the past three decades, Gibson has evolved a rich interdisciplinary practice, drawing from American, Indigenous and queer histories, as well as references to popular music, literature and art historical narratives. Harnessing these sources to his own personal experiences, Gibson has created an astonishing array of works that explore questions of taste, authenticity and the limits of cultural legibility. His art spans the fullest range of mediums—from painting and sculpture to installation, video and performance—and a distinctive visual language that embraces a broad spectrum of cultural expressions and identities in a way that is simultaneously intimate and radically expansive.

Following the presentation of Susana Chillida’s book ‘Una vida para el arte’ in Menorca, we have partnered with Escola Oficial d’Idiomes (Mahon and Ciutadella’s language schools), Escoles d’adults de Menorca (Menorcan adults education school) and Xarxa de Biblioteques de Menorca (local libraries across Menorca). The collaboration will involve the donation of Susana Chillida’s memoir in both Spanish—published by Galaxia Gutenberg—and English, released by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, to be included in their winter programs.

On Thursday 19 September 2024, the Learning Exchange traveled to Somerset for a day of conversations highlighting interdisciplinary approaches to learning, led by artists, educators, museum and gallery professionals. The event followed the gallery’s inaugural Learning Exchange in 2023 at Hauser & Wirth New York, 18th Street, with further editions planned in New York and Los Angeles. The forthcoming ‘Learning Exchange: Community Matters’ will take place in our gallery in New York, 18th Street, on Friday 18 October 2024.

We are proud to have welcomed Leela Keshav as our inaugural writer-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Keshav was the first participant in ‘Write Now,’ a new residency in partnership with ArtReview, that provided time and space for early career writers to develop their craft and ambitions. ‘Write Now’ took place in parallel to the gallery’ s ongoing program of artist residencies, that have been running since 2013.

The 2024 edition of the Baur au Lac’s Art in the Park program will feature five bronze sculptures by artist William Kentridge, on view 10 June until 21 July 2024. Curated by Gigi Kracht, curator, collector, writer and founder of Art in the Park, Kentridge’s playful investigations in sculpture and scale will be featured alongside an indoor presentation by Martin Creed and Rita Ackermann.

This Zurich Art Weekend, major solo exhibitions by Philip Guston and Nairy Baghramian open at our Limmatstrasse gallery, with a showcase of selected masterpieces on view in our Bahnhofstrasse space. In collaboration with the Baur au Lac hotel, works by William Kentridge, Martin Creed and Rita Ackermann feature in this year’s edition of ‘Art in the Park.’ Join us on Friday evening for a summer party organized by Hauser & Wirth Publishers in collaboration with our neighboring galleries on Rämistrasse.

On the occasion of late American artist Winfred Rembert’s exhibition ‘Hard Times’ on view in Downtown Los Angeles, ‘Being Unique is a Gift,’ is a new learning inititative in collaboration with the Arts for Healing and Justice Network (AHJN), an organization that provides arts programming to youth impacted by the juvenile justice system. 

Hauser & Wirth Somerset celebrates the opening of our Education Lab, ‘Open Art School,’ a partnership with Bath Spa University from Saturday 25 May 2024 until Sunday 5 January 2025. 

As part of ‘Phyllida Barlow. unscripted,’ curated by Frances Morris, a presentation of sculpture is on view across all of the outdoor spaces at our Somerset gallery, including works from the artist’s ‘PRANK’ series and works being shown in open air for the first time. The landmark exhibition brings together a collection of the artist’s signature elements from several major installations, including work made in the last year of Barlow’s life. 

We are pleased to announce representation of British artist George Rouy in collaboration with Hannah Barry Gallery. George Rouy’s artistic pursuit delves into the physicality and movement of the body, navigating contradictions, harmonies and perpetual transformations. In his paintings, a dynamic and signature deployment of the human figure, vexed with desire, alienation and crisis, results in rhapsodic portraits of identity in the globalized and technologically driven 21st Century.

For the Spring 2024 semester of Community Impact Media, a shared project between the gallery and Cal State LA, student filmmakers drew inspiration from the exhibition RETROaction (part two). Their films illuminate the stories of nonprofits committed to the socioeconomic transformation in South LA communities and organizations advocating for those impacted by the juvenile justice system.

In celebration of Jason Rhoades’ exhibition in Los Angeles the Education Lab will host ‘Going Forward with No Brakes,’ an interactive space and series of programs throughout the duration of the exhibition for visitors to consider the significance of car culture in Los Angeles. For Rhoades, cars played an important role in the California artist’s work: as readymade sculptural objects, and as imaginative spaces in which to break, conceptualize, create and converse with others. In the Education Lab, visitors will have access to a curated film and books about cars and transportation and space to respond to the materials and document their own relationships to vehicles. 

As part of the gallery’s ongoing learning programs and initiatives, we launched a multi-year partnership with The Drawing Center’s education and community programs: Drawing Connections and Drawing All-Stars 3.0.